424 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



laubi {D. cardmalis, ad.), and therefore the latter species 

 should be the type; consequently Ipoctonus, with which 

 Heine proposes to supplant Dendropicus, must have the same 

 type, although he mentions it when writing of D. gahonensis. 

 This seems to be Heine^s own idea, for in 1863 Cabanis and 

 Heine proposed Ipopatis for the latter species. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Shafts of quills and of tail-feathers bright yellow or 



orange-brown above and below. 

 a\ Above uniform. 



a^. Upper surface uniform yellowish olive, 

 a'. No black on hind neck. 



a^. Upper tail-coverts tinged with red hifresnai/i. 



b\ Upper tail-coverts with no red \ f'".'"/^ '*• 



^ "^ ( kpuiHS. 



c*. Rump, as well as upper tail-coverta, red . . abi/mnicus. 



h^. Hind neck Avith a black patch mclanauchen. 



b"^. Upper surface uniform brown ohsalettts. 



b\ Upper surface distinctly barred. 



c'-. Upper tail-coverts blood-red ; above brown barred 

 with whitish. 

 c^. Throat and breast streaked, the abdomen spotted 



with dusky brown hemprichi. 



<P. Underparts entirely spotted minutiis. 



cP. Upper tail-coverts yellow, sometimes slightly 

 washed with scarlet ; brown of the forehead 

 extending beyond the eye ; upper surface yel- 

 lowish olive, barred with yellow, 

 e^. Larger, length 6-0 inches, wing 3' 75 ; under- 

 parts dull white, thickly streaked with black ; 



hind neck dusl^y cardmalis. 



f^. Smaller, length 5-5 inches, wing 3'6 ; under- 

 parts yellowish, uarrowlj' streaked with dusky 

 blackish ; hind neck olive za/iziburi. 



b. Shafts of quills and tail-feathers black above, yellow 



or light brown below ; rump like the back, and no 

 red on it. 

 c\ Under surface of the body spotted with black ; ear- 

 coverts streaked with black [labonensis. 



d\ Under surface of the body broadly striped with 



olive ; ear-coAerts uniform higuhris. 



